How to Build a 404 Dashboard for WordPress

I don’t know about you but I find old posts with broken links all the time. It is not always to keep track of sites that change and things that break. The good news is you can download plugins to track 404 errors and broken links. You can also write your own code. Here is how to do it through your WordPress functions.php file:

This script keeps track of broken URLs in real-time and makes the top ones available on the WordPress dashboard. It won’t fix your 404 errors for you but it identifies the areas you need to work on to avoid having broken content.